【正文】 wasting C. spending D. taking 13． A. pay for B. ask for C. look into D. carry out 14． A. regularly B. calmly C. pletely D. roughly 15． A. advertise B. sell C. deliver D. lend 16． A. collects B. produces C. designs D. donates 17． A. permission B. payment C. direction D. support 18． A. borrow B. raise C. expect D. save 19． A. tired B. excited C. surprised D. amused 20． A. profit B. rule C. decision D. difference 第二節(jié) 閱讀理解（共 15小題；每小題 2分，滿分 30分） 閱讀下列短文 ，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng) （ A 、 B 、 C 和 D ）中選出最佳選項(xiàng) ，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。 A I hate nosy (愛(ài)管閑事的 ) neighbors and it’s very unlucky that I had one for myself. They moved in a couple of months back and although I never felt that they were a strange family, I’ve always hated the way they get “too close” to me, my house, my garden, and even my garbage cans. One day, my neighbors were mowing their lawn (草坪 ). My garbage cans were near their lawn. For some strange reason, I found the wife looking through my garbage cans. I felt angry but since they were from a different culture, I thought that maybe it was “normal” from their ideas. That afternoon, the couple knocked on my front door. When I opened, they gave me a plastic bag. Inside were my old daily bills, credit cards and bank statements, and an old birthday card that my old uncle sent. They said that they were returning them to me because these documents contained very private information that may be used by others. I’ve heard of it before. I asked them how those documents can be used by others and they started telling me their very own experience, which forced them to leave their home and move next door to us. The wife told me that she never destroyed the bills. They also had a “nosy neighbor” who looked through their garbage cans which they actually thought was pretty strange. Little did they know that this “nosy neighbor” was collecting their personal information from their rubbish. Then all their money was taken out from the bank by their neighbor. It was a very painful experience for all of them and they wanted to leave it all behind so they left. I was very thankful. They were not nosy neighbors. They simply didn’t want us to experience the same thing that they did. 21． What made the author angry? A. His neighbor’s wife was looking through his rubbish. B. His neighbors were mowing their lawn one morning. C. His neighbors got too close to his own home. D. His neighbors came to knock at his door at night. 22． Why did the couple e to the author’s home? A. To introduce themselves to the author. B. To get to know each other better. C. To return the documents to the author. D. To borrow some money from the author. 23． Which of the following can we infer from the last paragraph? A. The author was kind and helpful to the neighbors. B. The neighbors had to move from place to place. C. The neighbors didn’t have enough money. D. The author changed his idea about his neighbors. You may not pay much attention to your daily lift ride. Many of us use a lift several times during the day without really thinking about it. But Lee Gray, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, the US, has made it his business to examine this overlooked form of public transport. He is known as the “Lift Guy” ． “The lift bees this interesting social space where etiquette( 禮儀 ) is sort of odd(奇怪的 )， ” Gray told the BBC. “They (Lifts) are socially very interesting but often very awkward places.” We walk in and usually turn around to face the door. If someone else es in, we may have to move. And here, according to Gray, lift users unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements. He told the BBC what he had observed. He explained that when you are the only one inside a lift, you can do whatever you want— it39。s your own little box. If there are two of you, you go into different corners, standing diagonally(對(duì)角線地 ) across from each other to create distance. When a third person enters, you will unconsciously form a triangle. And when there is a fourth person, it bees a square, with someone in every corner. A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle. New entrants to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively. Once in, for most people the rule is simple— look down, or look at their phones. Why are we so awkward in lifts? “Y ou don39。t have enough space， ” Professor Babette Renneberg, a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin, told the BBC. “Usually when we meet other people, we have about an arm39。s length of distance between us. And that39。s not possible in most lifts.” In such a small, enclosed space it bees very important to act in a way that cannot be construed(解釋 ) as threatening or odd. “The easiest way to do this is to avoid eye contact， ”she said. 24． The main purpose of the article is to ________． A. remind us to enjoy ourselves in the lift B. tell us some unwritten rules of lift etiquette C. share an interesting but awkward lift ride D. analyze what makes people feel awkward in a lift 25． According to Gray, when people enter a lift, they usually ________． A. turn around and greet one another B. look around or examine their phones C. make eye contact with those in the lift D. try to keep a distance from other people 26． Which of the following describes how people usually stand when there are at least two people in a lift? (The point in the chart refers to one person) As Amy Hagadorn rounded the corner across the hall from her classroom, she crashed with a tall boy from the fifth grade running in the opposite direction． “